Embodied mind
General ecological information for higher cognition
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Non-lawful regularities in a form of life support skilled engagement with distant, socio-cultural affordances.
Key findings
General ecological information is any niche regularity such that aspect x makes aspect y likely; lawful information is a special case. Imagination is anticipatory skilled engagement with multiple affordances, not a mandatory inner representation.
Methodology
Within the Skilled Intentionality Framework they reconceive ecological information so that conventions, habits, and other constraints—not only lawful optical specification—can support affordance engagement, including activities tagged as 'higher' cognition.
Limitations
It does not empirically measure attunement to particular constraints, and it does not fully analyse every 'higher' practice (they flag science-fiction writing as unfinished).
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Non-lawful regularities in a form of life can support skilled engagement with distant socio-cultural affordances.
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